Health Care debate
Those shrinking Social Security checks
The Associated Press is warning (or frightening) seniors that their Social Security checks will be smaller next year if President Obama doesn’t fix healthcare this year under the headline “Millions Face Shrinking Social Security Payments” The trustees who oversee Social Security are projecting there won’t be a cost of living adjustment (COLA) for the next […]
That Republican conspiracy against healthcare
Obama told a talk show host this morning that he sees a Republican conspiracy against him and not necessarily against his health care plan (Washington Times link); “I think early on, a decision was made by the Republican leadership that said, ‘Look, let’s not give him a victory, maybe we can have a replay of […]
Democrat corporate shills? Unpossible!
I remember that during the Bush Administration, because VP Cheney once worked at Haliburton, somehow it proved that Bush and Cheney were working to make that company profitable so Cheney could get some sort of remuneration from the relationship. It’s difficult to find a newspaper article that doesn’t mention Cheney and Haliburton in the same […]
Post sees light
The editorial board of the Washington Post gives Obama sound advice today by admitting that he should drop proposals for a “public option”. This is not a matter of ideology but of political nose-counting. The kind of comprehensive health reform that the president rightly wants — changes that would extend affordable coverage to millions of […]
A preview of death panels from VA
In the Wall Street Journal, Jim Towey exposes the use of death counseling at VA; Last year, bureaucrats at the VA’s National Center for Ethics in Health Care advocated a 52-page end-of-life planning document, “Your Life, Your Choices.” It was first published in 1997 and later promoted as the VA’s preferred living will throughout its […]
60,000 resign from AARP
I’ve hated AARP as long as I can remember because they’ve so blatantly opposed to everything that has stood in their way to soak seniors out of their savings. They’ve sold crappy insurance and crappy annuities under the guise of a special club for seniors. They were nothing more than an insurance brokerage. Despite their […]
Left puts foot down
The Obama Administration let word out through Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius that the “government option” isn’t “essential” to their healthcare plan. Apparently, the rest of the left doesn’t agree. Congressman Raúl M. Grijalva, the co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucas issued this statement; The public option is central to healthcare reform. Real […]
Obama death threats up…or not
Drudge links to this ABC story under this headline; Of course the article has the fingerprints of Mark Potok from Southern Poverty Law Center all over it; “I don’t think these are simply people who are mentally ill or off their rocker,” Mark Potok, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, […]
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